Roast Mortem Cast

246 - Sir Richard Burton (pt. 7): Gorilla Hunting & the Cannibals

August 18th, 2022  |  1 hr 24 mins

19th century, africa, anthropology, burton, comedy, drinking, england, explorer, gorilla, history, jungle, podcast

Burton is back in Africa for his first consulship! We tag along for Burton's many explorations into West Africa as he hunts for the mysterious 19th century cryptid, the Gorilla. He also risks his skin to study tribes and kingdoms with some cannibalistic tendencies.

244 - Sir Richard Burton (pt.5): Where the White Nile Grools

August 4th, 2022  |  1 hr 40 mins

19th century, africa, comedy, david livingstone, drinking, england, english, english empire, exploration, explorer, history, insects, jungle, london, nile, podcast, the nile

We take a deep dive into the arduous and disgusting exploration of Richard Burton & John Hanning Speke's quest for the source of the Nile. Along the way we will encounter massive sex organs, ear burrowing beetles and betrayal.

243 - Sir Richard Burton (pt.4): An Examination of the Gash.

July 28th, 2022  |  1 hr 34 mins

19th century, africa, comedy, crimean war, drinking, england, ethiopia, exploration, history, kenya, podcast, river, sociology, somalia, the nile

Burton sets out for an expedition of the unexplored city of Harar in modern day Ethiopia, he documents extreme female circumcision, fights in the Crimean War and had a decisive scuffle with the Somali's and his stalker back in London.

The quest for the source of the Nile has begun!

129 - Idi Amin: Uganda's Big Dumb Dumpster Dictator

May 7th, 2020  |  1 hr 36 mins

africa, cannibalism, comedy, crazy, dictator, drinking, genocide, history, idiot, podcast

Uganda had it bad when big fat dumb dumb Idi Amin took over the government by force. This disillusion dictator massacred his people, destroyed Uganda's economy and claimed the title of 'Lord of all Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in general and Uganda in particular'.

76 - Francisco Macías Nguema: Africa's Hitler that HATED smarty boys!

April 25th, 2019  |  1 hr 26 mins

60s, 70s, africa, african history, brain drain, cannibalism, colonialism, comedy, crazy, cult, cult of personality, dictator, drinking, drugs, equatorial guinea, execution, genocide, history, ignorance, intellectual, mass murder, murder, podcast, populism, psychedelic, spain, villain, witch doctor

Do you hate four-eye'd, know-it-all smarty boys that, like you know, love to learn and read books? Then, congratulations! You're as much of an ignorant dumbass as Francisco Macías Nguema a.k.a. Africa's Hitler.